NY: The New Press, 2000. 1st edition, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. This is the first of the series which introduces Police Inspector Kurt Wallander, hard-drinker, opera-lover and a failure in love. A contemporary Sweden driven by violence and racial prejudice. A unique mixture of American Noir and almost existential European melancholia. Mankell won the Swedish Academy of Crime Literature for this book.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

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Faceless Killers is a crime novel by Swedish writer Henning Mankell, and the first in his acclaimed Wallander series. The English translation by Steven T. Murray was published in 1997. In 1992, Faceless Killers won the first ever Glass Key, an award given to crime writers from the Nordic countries.

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Bookseller: Murder By The Book (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 006261
Title: FACELESS KILLERS
Author: Mankell, Henning
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 156584341X
ISBN 13: 9781565843417
Publisher: The New Press
Place of Publication: NY
Date Published: 2000
Keywords: Mystery & Crime; British Edition; Award Winner; First Book; Sweden;
Bookseller catalogs: FIRST BOOK; First in Series; SWEDEN;

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